Hacker snatches 900GB of data from pay-for-hire phone-hacking agency
In an unusual episode of bullies turned into victims, an anonymous hacker has breached a popular pay-for-hire mobile hacking agency known for selling surveillance and data extraction solutions to intelligence and law enforcement organs. Motherboard reports the vigilante attacker has lifted 900GB of data from Israeli firm Cellebrite and provided the publication with a copy of the stolen information. The retrieved data includes customer credentials, databases and immense amounts of technical data describing the company’s products. Cellebrite’s bestseller is the portable Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) which has the capacity to rip data from a wide variety of smartphones as long as the UFED-user is in possession of…
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